Orbital Insight and Asterra join forces to monitor infrastructure
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 21:48
Orbital Insight announced plans Aug. 9 to work with Israeli startup Asterra to jointly provide remote sensing analytics to water utilities, infrastructure organizations and other industries.
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SpaceX loses $900 million in rural broadband subsidies
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 20:41
SpaceX has lost its bid for nearly $900 million in rural broadband subsidies for its Starlink broadband service.
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Increased solar activity creates new challenges for smallsats
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 20:10
A new solar activity cycle that may be stronger than forecast poses challenges for smallsat operators keeping their spacecraft in orbit and functioning.
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U.S. Army a key customer of BlackSky’s next-generation imaging satellite
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:55
BlackSky will launch a new imaging satellite in 2023 that will be used exclusively by the U.S. Army for tests and experiments.
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Building on the moon and Mars? You'll need extraterrestrial cement for that
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 19:20
Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn't currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads.
So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to fit in your carry-on and there's no Home Depot in outer space?
DARPA selects companies for inter-satellite laser communications project
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 18:51
Eleven organizations were selected by DARPA to help develop laser terminals and technical standards to connect satellites in space.
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NASA cubesat bumped from rideshare launch because of orbital debris mitigation concerns
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 17:25
A NASA cubesat was removed from a recent rideshare launch opportunity on a U.S. Space Force mission because the spacecraft could not meet guidelines for deorbiting at the end of its life.
First cubesat completed for NASA space science constellation
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 15:00
The Space Dynamics Laboratory has completed the first of a constellation of cubesats for NASA that will act as a giant radio telescope in space to study space weather.
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Student payloads to fly on RocketStar suborbital test flight
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 13:49
TriSept Corp. has integrated two experimental payloads built by university students on a RocketStar suborbital test flight scheduled to launch next month.
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NanoAvionics expands into heavier smallsat market
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 13:25
NanoAvionics said Aug. 10 it has extended its range of modular satellite buses in another step toward the heavier end of the small satellite market.
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Capella unveils a new generation of radar satellites
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 12:00
Capella Space intends to offer improved image resolution and quality with a new generation of synthetic aperture radar satellites, called Acadia, scheduled to launch in early 2023.
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NASA Announces New CubeSat Launch Initiative Partnership Opportunities
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 10:36
NASA has announced a new round of opportunities through the agency's CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) for CubeSat developers, including educational institutions, to conduct scientific investigations and technology demonstrations in space and contribute to the agency's exploration goals.
"Small satellites, such as CubeSats play a valuable role in the agency's educational, science, and techn Benchmark to keep popular orbits safer with collision avoidance kit
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 10:36
With the most popular, revenue-generating orbits increasingly congested, Benchmark Space Systems has unveiled a breakthrough Collision Avoidance (ColA) Kit, featuring its heritage propulsion technology in a condensed package, that is easily and affordably deployed aboard electric propulsion (EP) and non-propulsive microsatellites and OTVs to help them quickly steer clear of approaching spacecraf AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 test satellite arrives at Cape Canaveral
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 10:36
AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ("AST SpaceMobile") (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible directly by standard mobile phones, has announced that its BlueWalker 3 test satellite (BW3) has arrived at Cape Canaveral. The satellite recently departed an off-site testing facility in California after collecting flight data for the upcoming plann CST signs agreement with Gilmour Space for the launch of 50kg to LEO
Wednesday, 10 August 2022 10:36
Commercial Space Technologies Ltd (CST) has signed an agreement with Australian launch provider, Gilmour Space Technologies, to offer a launch capacity of up to 50 kilograms on their Eris Block 1 vehicle.
The combination of Gilmour Space's orbital launch services and full CST oversight will offer an affordable launch solution to satellite customers needing access to custom low earth orbits